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In a life of extraordinary achievement — his group still says that winning
Wimbledon in 2008 takes the ultimate biscuit — for Rafael Nadal to end this
of all years as the world’s No 1 player is special by any standards.

He has done this not once, but three times, and with a three-year hiatus since
his previous ascent.

In the middle of November last year, too long spent sitting down and he would
have to flex his left knee to try to get the stiffness out of it. At the O2
arena in southeast London, after two hours and 12 minutes of